MIND SKIDS ON CONCRETE
By Victoriano K.

Hola, Feliz Navidad y Feliz Año Nuevo. I walk a lot for exercise and I’ve been in many towns where the streets were shaded with bearing trees, oranges-lemons-grapefruit-apples and walnuts. But never in a city that needs signs warning - “Watch for falling cocos!” I’m watchin’! Last month I asked, “what ever happened to Pia Zadora?” So happens she checks our web site each month - www.pacificpearl.com - and e-mailed that she’s happy and healthy being a nanny to 5 kids on an agave rancho in Tequila, Jalisco and says the perks are great. Happy New Year to all. (I’m foolin’ I’ll always say when I’m foolin’.) I’ve always liked this lady - an above average actress/singer. Now - what’s happened to Bo Derek? PREDICTION: As of March, 2002, the long hated and ridiculed practice of the ‘Drug Certification’ program by the U.S.A. will cease! This stipulation of the ‘War on Drugs´ no longer has purpose except to embarrass other countries like Mexico by the finger pointing of this worlds largest, ‘end user´. Especially now, when the U.S. needs all the cooperation it can get for its new, ‘War on Terrorism´. Ever wonder what condition and population this world would be if - in all our history, we’d never had wars of any kind - for any reason? OBSERVATION: election weekends in Mexico. Sixty hours - 2 1/2 days of ‘no alcohol´ sales. This law had to be enacted during the PRI administration. For what reason? Too many angry, frustrated - and yes drunken - mobs of the electorate screaming “FRAUD” at the polls all over Mexico! Okay, those days are mainly over. Mexico’s election process is probably one of the worlds best. But this law exists. Who does it help and who does it hurt? I’ll do the ‘Hurtees’ first. In some way, top to bottom, every working citizen of this Mexican Nation! All the people this law was `supposed to protect´. When the reality was - this law was designed to protect the goverment...from an angry citizenry opposed to election- day ‘games´! In the past I’ve seen several 4th of July weekends along the border towns go in the economic ‘bucket’ because of this law. -”Hey, my friend, what’s

happening in Mexico this weekend?” -”Nada, amigo - - it’s closed” You ‘Drys’ couldn’t care, I know - - but ‘booze’ is big business inMexico — has been since the ‘Volstead Act’ of 1919 was passed in the U.S. And you ‘Wets’, the informed ones — Mexicans and tourists — just stock up in advance to beat this stupid law — never thinking of all the bars and package stores that will be closed, the restaurants and hotels who downsize their staffs for lack of business. All these employees not earning a peso that weekend will spend less at the food stores - drugstores, etc. on down the line. Has anyone ever totaled the economic losses within Mexico because of this election day law? They should. And, now, who has this law helped? I’ve only one answer. If the premise of ‘soberness’ was this law’s intent — and if in truth it was effective — maybe that’s why the majority of Mexico’s electorate last July, 2000 voted in a new ruling government and Señor Fox. Ironic for the PRI, don’t you think? Ken Kesey passed away last month in an Oregon hospital from cancer complications. The author of, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” and “Sometimes a Great Notion,” was often labeled an ‘Acid-Head’, mainly by critics possessing, (maybe), half his intelligence and talent. Mr. Kesey wrote some serious stuff, forever to be remembered in literature. R.I.P. I’ve read that F.I.F.A., the World Cup ‘Jefes’, are requesting So. Korea to refrain from listing dog meat on restaurant menus during the games next year and consider the ‘sensitivities’ of their world visitors. Makes me wonder if these world visitors — in the stadiums — will give up their Oscar Mayers too! Shakira: A young woman of pure music. Probably the most popular Colombian export since Juan Valdez and, “The White Lady.” Quote of the month: “Verily, ye who abides patiently — will surely catch the next bus.” —Mazatlan Axion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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